Horseytalk.net/Hoofbeat EXCLUSIVE

RIDER RIGHTS

click here to read more

Steve Yandall warns of the risks being run by centralising and industrialising our landscape.

The British Horse Society must now be aware, or be made aware, of the risks being run by centralising and industrialising our landscape.

- In the loss of access we have,without resistance,empowered the centre to adopt means that have no place in a democracy.We pay but have no say.We have laws but they remain unenforced

- I will be kinder and lay the blame at the ministerial doors of several administrations that,as our representatives, have failed to make public servants fulfill public aspirations and have capitulated to somewhat flimsy science.

Says Steve Yandall

Says Steve YandallThe British Horse Society, Ramblers Association,tourists,conservationists ,environmentalists and the general public must all now be aware,or be made aware, of the risks being run by centralising and industrialising our landscape.

The 'thin end of the wedge' is clearly being felt by the recent loss of access experienced by those that have enjoyed "air and excercise" for generations.

What more is there to lose?

In the loss of access we have,without resistance,empowered the centre to adopt means that have no place in a democracy.We pay but have no say.We have laws but they remain unenforced.We have laws that are enforced by stalwarts like Tony Barnett but are overridden by LA's,Police and judiciary at Tony's expense and our loss.We have land(Common's)upon which public legal rights were bestowed but ,on administrative whim, land and rights have been misappropriated.We have an administration that plans to ease such inroads by legal changes to Common Land Law.We have Natural England,English Heritage,Wildlife Trusts,DEFRA(and all within Parliaments knowledge)intent on 'milking' Europe of ringfenced funding in support of a discredited HLS agenda that fails to create the opportunities and payback that we,as taxpayers,should expect of 'expert' admistrators that purport to be working on our behalf.

Now we have the ubiquitous Ash tree being threatened and in typical central fashion panic meetings are being held to devise a strategy that should already have been formulated!I wonder how long it will be before "Ash exclusion zones" are announced to reinforce the public exclusion that follows HLS ?How long will it be before Ash clearance starts and that one tree that may carry genetic resistance to the disease is killed?

There are many more issues associated with the mismanagement of our money and countryside but the above points illustrate an anarchic,exploitative and unaccountable administration that is bent on injecting our cash into projects that are 'by right' supported by PINS and others through the implication that no credibility exists other than that which exists within their fraternal 'public body' family.

I am sick of being told of the benefits this 'one trick pony' will bestow on our futures when little evidence of those benefits exist.Monitoring and enforcement ensured ESA failed in my area and the same two failings still appear to exist.Were I cynical I could conclude that the failure of ESA #guaranteed huge funding to maintain the industries spending the money we so kindly provide.Instead I will be kinder and lay the blame at the ministerial doors of several administrations that,as our representatives, have failed to make public servants fulfill public aspirations and have capitulated to somewhat flimsy science.

When those we pay impose via misinformation and unlawfulness the public have no option but to DEMAND an explanation.Having had the offer of a meeting with Richard Benyon two years ago I felt an explanation may have been forthcoming instead the meeting itself was NEVER forthcoming!!!What more need be said except it was confirmed to me by another MP that "a meeting no longer had a point".

Clearly democracy is more easily devalued than currency!

I would suggest Mr Benyon considers whether he should talk or walk?

# For information. Stewards associated with the failure of ESA(millions of our money) are now in receipt of HLS monies!I stood with Peter Bowden(NE Adviser) on Carn Galva in Cornwall to be told that the state of the land "is criminal".An honest statement ,I believe, in view of money being paid with no known or visible payback over the previous two decades.

Adds Craig Weatherhill

 

- But Bowden was supposed to be DEFRA's monitoring officer for the West Penwith ESA. He knew (as did everyone else) that the National Trust was taking the piss and taking all the (publicly funded) payments and doing nothing for it - ignoring the ESA requirements.

- Bowden did nothing when he should have withheld payments from the NT at an early stage. During his time with NE, he should have been monitoring 4 years of grazing on Carnyorth Common under HLS, but we have it in writing that no monitoring has been done there. Except by unpaid, concerned members of the public, who then get publicly castigated, and even threatened, for doing so.

Says Craig Weatherill

Says Craig WeatherillBut Bowden was supposed to be DEFRA's monitoring officer for the West Penwith ESA. He knew (as did everyone else) that the National Trust was taking the piss and taking all the (publicly funded) payments and doing nothing for it - ignoring the ESA requirements. Just whose back pocket benefitted from that? But Bowden was supposed to be DEFRA's monitoring officer for the West Penwith ESA. He knew (as did everyone else) that the National Trust was taking the piss and taking all the (publicly funded) payments and doing nothing for it - ignoring the ESA requirements. Just whose back pocket benefitted from that? Bowden did nothing when he should have withheld payments from the NT at an early stage. During his time with NE, he should have been monitoring 4 years of grazing on Carnyorth Common under HLS, but we have it in writing that no monitoring has been done there. Except by unpaid, concerned members of the public, who then get publicly castigated, and even threatened, for doing so. Another £20,000 per year of public money being totally wasted, plus whatever it cost to install all the fences, gates and grids that have actively deterred public access and badly disadvantaged the local economy.

HEATH/HLS is crooked from top to bottom.

Another £20,000 per year of public money being totally wasted, plus whatever it cost to install all the fences, gates and grids that have actively deterred public access and badly disadvantaged the local economy.

Steve Yandall replies

- Is it time to monitor,regulate and account for clear failings in both application and overall benefit to guarantee our money minimises its impact on global degradation and is invested in projects that maximise environmental benefit thus embracing those of us that feel disenfranchised and excluded?

Says Steve Yandall

Says Steve YandallQuite so Craig but just how far did this 'neglect' go?

Was there a pecuniary interest?Was it total local ineptitude/lazyness?Was it a QUANGO policy to ensure the failure of ESA in order to justify HLS?Was it a reflection of the real management capabilities and expertise of EN/NE?

The weight of evidence favours the latter as the justification of HLS contained misinformation that diverted blame for the failure of ESA from EN/NE to other causal failures and appears to have been moulded to support the extraction of maximum European revenue and the 'maintenance' of NE credibility.

I would add to that the failure to protect Marsupella profunda on the three sites nominated to Europe is also indicative of NE's neglect.Without undertaking their prime legal role the UK told Europe that Marsupella "is likely to become extinct".Completely true in the knowledge that no measures(other than announcing 3 protection sites) were taken to ensure its survival until the mistake of claiming 'expertise' re.Marsupella at the public inquiry to gain consent to build an incinerator near one of the three protected sites came to public notice!Expertise and neglect are uneasy bedfellows and have resulted in the loss of two colonies.

For information Marsupella,on a World scale, is acutely rare and the UK(Cornwall)holds a high % of that population which is measured in sq cmt's but,of course,questions arise regarding the availability of funds for 'glamour' species whilst low profile,but rarer, species remain neglected?Is 'conservation' commercially based and,as an industry,more intent on self perpetuation than the 'duty of care' we all readily assume to be a cornerstone of care?

QUOTE--senior manager NE "the government would see us as successful if all we did was administer funding into the rural economy".

NE/Wildlife Trusts etc all have good people but is it time to monitor,regulate and account for clear failings in both application and overall benefit to guarantee our money minimises its impact on global degradation and is invested in projects that maximise environmental benefit thus embracing those of us that feel disenfranchised and excluded?
I think so.

Join the discussion

Do you think the British Horse Society must now be aware,or be made aware, of the risks being run by centralising and industrialising our landscape?

E-mail us NOW

Read more here


Email this to a friend !!

Enter recipient's e-mail: